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Pitfalls of foreign property

Nothing new about that, you might think - like much of the nation I am obsessed with the likes of Location, Location, Location - but you would be wrong. This one was different. Instead of being about how you absolutely must, right now, rush out and buy a house somewhere (Bansko in Bulgaria, Dubrovnik in Croatia, wherever, just buy), this one was called Selling Houses Abroad, and it actually looked at the horrible downsides.

There was the sad tale of a couple who had used their life savings to buy a flat and a patch of land to build on in Montenegro - or thought they had. In fact, despite having paid more than £160,000 over three years, they had actually not bought anything. Neither property was in their name and their "agent" had managed to get another large sum of money out of